Ben Marwick, University of Washington
Society of American Archaeology Meeting, April 2015
“An article about a computational result is advertising, not scholarship. The actual scholarship is the full software environment, code and data, that produced the result.” - Claerbout and Karrenbach, Proceedings of the 62nd Annual International Meeting of the Society of Exploration Geophysics. 1992
“When we publish articles containing figures which were generated by computer, we also publish the complete software environment which generates the figures” - Buckheit & Donoho, Wavelab and Reproducible Research, 1995.
“The scholarship does not only consist of theorems and proofs but also (and perhaps even more important) of data, computer code and a runtime environment which provides readers with the possibility to reproduce all tables and figures in an article.” - Hothorn et al., 2009 Case studies in reproducibility
Using literate statistical programming
Using an open source programming language & open document formatting language
Using version control & continuous integration
Using dynamic documents
Using an isolated environment
Using permissive licenses & permanent URLs
“Abandoning the habit of secrecy in favor of process transparency and peer review was the crucial step by which alchemy became chemistry.”
-Raymond, E. S., 2004, The art of UNIX programming: Addison-Wesley.
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